Via the backdoor “right of contact with their children” and joined custody this is especially easy to do for perpetrators because the rights of the separated parents of having contact and joined custody stands above the rights for safety from violence against women and children. This short video explains why.

Only by full ratification of the Istanbul convention – an agreement of the European council for the prevention of and combating of violence against women (particularly domestic violence) – could women and children be better safeguarded.

With this petition we call upon the government to immediately ratify the Istanbul convention.

Please sign this petition and pass it on to as many people as possible. It´s important to get as many signatures as possible to demonstrate:

We say no to violence against women and children in all shapes and forms!

This petition can be signed online on the page of the German Bundestag. This is the quickest link to the petition or simply type in 66653 into the search field on www.bundestag.de